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Re: Extract Text Table From File

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On 09/05/12 08:08, Ramchandra Apte wrote:
> On Monday, 27 August 2012 15:42:14 UTC+5:30, Laszlo Nagy  wrote:
>> On 2012-08-27 11:53, Huso wrote:
>>> I am trying to extract some text table data from a log file
>>
>> fin = open("test.txt","r")
>>
>> for line in fin:
>>
>>      # This is one possible way to extract values.
>>
>>      values = line.strip().split()
>>
>>      print values
>
> the csv module should be used for this not regex

The problem is that the csv module expects a single delimiter
character, not columnar data.

-tkc

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Extract Text Table From File Huso <hussain.a.rasheed@gmail.com> - 2012-08-27 02:53 -0700
  Re: Extract Text Table From File Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-27 12:12 +0200
    Re: Extract Text Table From File Huso <hussain.a.rasheed@gmail.com> - 2012-08-27 03:34 -0700
    Re: Extract Text Table From File Huso <hussain.a.rasheed@gmail.com> - 2012-08-27 03:34 -0700
      Re: Extract Text Table From File Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-27 13:07 +0200
    Re: Extract Text Table From File Huso <hussain.a.rasheed@gmail.com> - 2012-08-27 04:23 -0700
    Re: Extract Text Table From File Huso <hussain.a.rasheed@gmail.com> - 2012-08-27 04:23 -0700
      Re: Extract Text Table From File Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-27 13:55 +0200
    Re: Extract Text Table From File Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-05 06:08 -0700
    Re: Extract Text Table From File Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-09-05 11:25 -0500
  Re: Extract Text Table From File Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-27 07:42 -0500

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